1h 16min | Musical | 5 August 1943
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Stars: Bob Hope, Betty Hutton, Zasu Pitts, Eve Arden
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036105/
Watched online, ok/mediocre print.
Routine comedy with Hope. Arden's and Pitt's presence helps somewhat, but Hutton is too frantic for me.
Soundtracks lists 7 songs, 4 by Cole Porter, 2 by Styne/Cahn, 1 by Styne/Gannon, but doesn't list who performed them. Yikes, a quick check of the internet yields the official Jule Styne site, and it says the 7th song (All the Way) was composed for this film but not used. (It's not the song Sinatra made famous, which is by Van Heusen.)
At about 41 minutes, Hope and his 2 buddies do a cute dance.
I remember Hutton singing a song that she custom-recorded (she's not a performer by profession in the film). And 3 or 4 numbers were performed to us in the nightclub in the second half (or maybe even 4th quarter) of the film.
The encounter between rowboat and submarine is cute and patriotic.
The very end, where Hope says he as out for a year didn't make sense to me. (I'm being vague so as not to spoil a subsequent viewing.)
Paramount, dir. Lanfield, 6
